To:THE SECRETARY, EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE GRANAT BROS. ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY (July 28, 1914)

Written:Written on July 28, 1914Published:Sent to Moscow.

      Printed from the original.

      Published for the first time in the Fourth (Russian) Edition of theCollected Works.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1976],

      Moscow,Volume 35,

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DearColleague

Somedays ago, despairing of any opportunity to finish
the work, I sent you a letter giving it up, with my
apologies.[1]But now the political circumstances on which I am so
extremely dependent are suddenly changing again in
radical fashion. First of all, the exceptional security measures
in St. Petersburg, about which I read today in the Russian
papers, are to remain in force until September 4, 1914,
evidently meaning that the paper for which I was writing is
slopped until then. Secondly, the war will, it seems,
interrupt a number ofurgentpolitical affairs with which I was
burdened. Therefore I could now set about continuing the
article on Marx which I have begun, and could probably
finish it soon. If you have not yet placed the order with
someone else, and commissioned another author, please
reply by cable to me (at my expense): Uljanow. Poronin.
Rabotaite.[2]

Ifyou have already commissioned someone else, please
reply by postcard.

Withassurances of my deep respect,V. Ilyin

Absender:Wl. Uljanow, Poronin (Galizien), Austria.

[2]Work.—Ed.